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Authentication today: Moving beyond passwords [source: helpnetsecurity]

A new global study from IBM Security examining consumer perspectives around digital identity and authentication, found that people now prioritize security over convenience when logging into applications and devices. Authentication methods perceived as most secure (global perspective) Generational differences also emerged showing that younger adults are putting less care into traditional password hygiene, yet are more likely to use biometrics, multifactor authentication and password managers to improve their...

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Malware Report Reveals Ransomware Detections Increased More Than 90%[source: malwarebytes]

Report reveals significant changes in cybercriminal methodology, including: Ransomware was the tool of choice for cybercriminals in 2017 and ransomware attacks increased up to 10 times 2017 saw a massive increase in the malicious use of cryptominers with Malwarebytes blocking an average of 8 million drive-by mining attempts per day Cybercriminals increased their usage of banking Trojans and hijackers to steal data from businesses   SANTA CLARA,...

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Norway’s Data Breach: Lessons for the US Healthcare Industry[source: teramind]

One of Norway’s largest healthcare providers,Health South-East RHF (translated), has become the victim of a data breach that may have exposed sensitive data from half the country’s population. This amounts to about 2.5 million people. For comparison in the U.S. the Equifax data breach exposed around half the country’s sensitive data to hackers who claimed it was easy. Despite the size of the breach, the healthcare...

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Lenovo’s Fingerprint Scanner Can Be Bypassed via a Hardcoded Password[bleepingcomputer]

Lenovo has issued security updates for a fingerprint scanner app it shipped with ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, and ThinkStation machines. Fingerprint Manager Pro is an application developed by Lenovo that allows users to log into Windows machines and online websites by scanning one of their fingerprints using the fingerprint scanner embedded in selected Lenovo products. “A vulnerability has been identified in Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro,” said Lenovo...

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Top 5 cybersecurity facts, figures and statistics for 2018 [source: csoonline]

These top level numbers summarize the cybersecurity industry over the past year and indicate what’s in store for the next five years. 1. Cyber crime damage costs to hit $6 trillion annually by 2021. It all begins and ends with cyber crime. Without it, there’s nothing to cyber-defend. The cybersecurity community and major media have largely concurred on the prediction that cyber crime damages will cost the...

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Mobile point of sale gets a PCI security standard [source: theregister]

The advent of mobile point-of-sale (MPOS) systems has been a boon for consumers and retailers of modest means, but the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council’s security wonks worried that they can’t adhere to the strict hardware standards that merchants’ credit card merchant terminals. Hence the announcement [PDF] of a new standard that aims to advise merchants on how they can let you pay with a PIN...

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SATORI AUTHOR LINKED TO NEW MIRAI VARIANT MASUTA [source: threatpost]

Researchers at NewSky Security say the hacker behind a Mirai malware variant called Satori, also known as Mirai Okiru, is the same hacker behind two new Mirai variants called Masuta and PureMasuta. Based on source code for Masuta malware recently found on the dark web, researchers at NewSky Security said they were able to connect the dots between Satori and Masuta. The hacker is identified...

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Alphabet enters enterprise cybersecurity market, launches Chronicle[source: helpnetsecurity]

Google’s parent company Alphabet has announced its entry into the lucrative enterprise cybersecurity market through Chronicle, a company started in early 2016 as a project at X, Alphabet’s “moonshot factory.” Chronicle has now “graduated” to the status of an independent company within Alphabet, and is lead by Stephen Gillett, formerly an ​executive-in-residence at Google Ventures and Chief Operating Officer of Symantec. VirusTotal, a malware intelligence service...

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Infected Android Games Spread Adware to More Than 4.5 Million Users[bleepingcomputer]

An Android app component meant to provide inter-user chatting capabilities has been opening websites and clicking on ads in phones’ background. According to a report published last week, this malicious component is part of a software development kit (SDK) offered by a Chinese company named 呀呀云 (Ya Ya Yun). Android app developers use the Ya Ya Yun SDK to add an instant messaging (chat) feature to...

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Stealth CrossRAT malware targets Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems[source: securityaffairs]

The popular former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle published a detailed analysis of the CrossRAT malware used by Dark Caracal for surveillance. Last week a joint report published by security firm Lookout and digital civil rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation detailed the activity of a long-running hacking group linked to the Beirut Government and tracked as Dark Caracal. The hacking campaigns conducted by Dark Caracal leverage a custom Android malware...

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